MLB announced Friday that spring training games will not start until March 5 at the earliest.
The owners say the players are asking for drastic changes to the existing free agency and compensation framework and have not backed off nearly enough of those demands to make negotiations productive.The players charge the owners were under no legal obligation to lock them out, and they say they did so to create a sense of urgency around the negotiationsout again.
Privately and publicly, both sides have suggested for years this was coming. Many in the industry worried this would be the most hostile labor clash in a generation after a decade and a half of collective bargaining agreements the union felt tilted the financial balance of power firmly in the owners’ direction.
The owners, meanwhile, have raised their proposed number to $214 million in 2021 and $222 million by the fifth year of the deal, about $8 million higher over five years than previous proposals.The players also wanted to make every player with at least two years of service time eligible for arbitration, as was the case a few generations or so ago, before the union conceded a year in previous negotiations.
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